Description

Position at IDEA Public Schools

In 2022-23, IDEA Public Schools will serve more than 80,000 students at 145 schools across 12 regions in four states-Texas, Louisiana, Florida, and Ohio. IDEA Public Schools is searching for a New Teacher Development Manager to lead work to ensure that new-to-IDEA teachers experience a culture of joyful high-performance and achieve strong results in their first year at IDEA. This individual is passionate about developing new educators and will lead organization-wide initiatives to onboard, coach, and train new teachers. They will partner with the New Hire Experience team to ensure a strong onboarding process, with the Academic Services Team to provide excellent summer and ongoing teacher training, and with campus managers to ensure effective day-to-day coaching and support. The ideal candidate will have a strong record of results as a teacher and have experience coaching or managing teachers to successful outcomes. They are data-driven and focused on user experience, gathering qualitative and quantitative data to deeply understand and to plan improvements to the work they lead.

In this role, you will:

• Conduct empathy interviews and complete a needs assessment investigating the current experiences of first-year teachers at IDEA.
• Using the needs assessment and research you gather about effective new teacher onboarding, develop and invest stakeholders in a shared organizational point of view about what leads to successful new teacher experiences.
• Based on your point of view, prioritize improvements to the new teacher experience such as:
  • Improving the design and quality of best practices shared in New Teacher Institute.
  • Enhancing the quality of new teacher training for mid-year hires.
  • Offering classroom management clinics in partnership with specific campuses or regions.
  • Designing resources and reminders or 'nudges' for managers of new teachers that improve the quality of teacher onboarding at the 7-day, 30-day, 60-day, and 90-day marks.
  • Create an early-onboarding handbook introducing teaching at IDEA that managers can share with teachers as soon as they are hired.
  • Pilot a new teacher mentorship program and/or new teacher support groups to enable strengthening relationships and sharing of best practices & resources.
• Gather and analyze ongoing qualitative and quantitative data to understand the impact of the work you lead and to identify successes and opportunities for further impact.
• Provide regular communication to national and regional teams communicating data about new teachers' experiences and sharing resources and suggestions.

Required Experience and Certifications:

• Bachelor's degree required
• Licenses or Certifications: Teacher certification in Florida, Louisiana, Ohio, or Texas is preferred
• Professional experience required:
  • At least 3 years of teaching pk-12 with a strong record of results
  • At least 2 years of coaching or managing teachers with a strong record of results

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge and expertise in classroom teaching, including building relationships with students and families, motivating students, planning and delivering effective instruction, analyzing and responding to student data, managing behavior, and contributing to positive school-wide culture
• Skill in designing effective training
• Skill in facilitating effective training, both in-person and virtually
• Skill in critical-thinking and problem-solving
• Skill in organization, prioritization, follow through, and attention to detail
• Skill in effective and interpersonal communication, both verbal and written, with ability to clearly explain and invest others in recruitment plans and goals
• Skill in building strong relationships and mutually beneficial business partnerships across multiple regions through trust, empathy, and credibility
• Ability to manage and monitor multiple projects at once, often under pressure with competing priorities and tight turnarounds while maintaining composure, ensuring quality, and achieving results
• Ability to demonstrate sound judgment and excellent decision-making
• Ability to analyze and interpret data and statistics to identify trends, draw conclusions, and develop strategies and tactics that that yield results and achieve goals; builds this competency in others
• Ability to advocate, influence, motivate, and hold others accountable through consistency and clarity of expectations
• Ability to manage adults to achieve results through influence rather than named managerial responsibility
• Ability to achieve quantifiable results through commitment, personal responsibility, and accountability
• Ability to provide, receive, and implement feedback that continually improves performance and results
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time (and up to 50% in July and August) to visit and lead training for teachers across IDEA regions.

Goals:

As the Manager of New Teacher Success, you will be responsible for leading work to reach the following ambitious goals:

• Partner with the New Hire Experience Team to ensure that onboarding benchmarks are met and 95% of new teacher hires are retained through the first 90 days on the job and 80% are retained through the first year of teaching.
• Interview teachers and campus leaders, gather data, and prioritize improvements in programming and support leading to a 5% increase in the percentage of new teachers reaching Level 3+ on the Teacher Career Pathway by their second year at IDEA.
• Lead and project manage New Teacher Institute in the summer for our 12 regions and plan ongoing, high-quality professional development throughout the year, in partnership with the Academic Services Team, such that 90% of new teachers report 4+/5 on training survey satisfaction.

Commitment to Diversity and Core Values:

To achieve our mission of 100% College For All, IDEA commits to being a diverse, equitable, inclusive and anti-racist organization, where we honor and include the voices, values, and beliefs of all our students, staff, alumni, families, and community members. Click here to learn about IDEA's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Anti-Racist and Anti-Bias commitment.

Our core values are:

• We Act with Integrity: We put the best interests of the IDEA Team & Family-and most importantly our students-at the forefront of all our decisions and actions, taking personal responsibility to model the honest and ethical behavior we want our students and each other to demonstrate every day.
• We Build Team & Family: We foster a sense of belonging and inclusivity by treating every member of the IDEA Team & Family-our students, staff, families, and community-with compassion, respect, and humility. We maximize our individual best efforts through collaboration and support of each other in the focused pursuit of our collective mission.
• We Achieve Academic Excellence: We believe ensuring college success for 100% of our students is the best way to help them succeed in life and in seeing obstacles they face as opportunities for learning and growth. Every member of the IDEA Team & Family works together to ensure each student on every campus and in every classroom receives a high-quality education.
• We Deliver Results: We set ambitious goals, hold ourselves and each other accountable for achieving results, and believe that our students will succeed to and through college. Our results show what's possible when the adults in the system get it right and represent the collective effort and focus of the entire IDEA Team & Family.
• We Ensure Equity: We set high expectations and share compassion and empathy for every member of the IDEA Team & Family. We differentiate our support and resources, proactively address racism and discrimination, and advocate alongside our students and staff to empower them with the opportunities to succeed and ensure the respect they deserve.
• We Bring Joy: We create a positive, uplifting, and joyful environment for every member of the IDEA Team & Family, every single day. We operate with a sense of optimism, and our traditions celebrate learning, growth, and the accomplishments of our students, staff, and community.
• We Sweat the Small Stuff: We embrace that achieving excellence lies in paying attention to and carrying out the details-the 'small stuff'-that go into effective execution and positive implementation. Every step of the way, the IDEA Team & Family prioritizes actions contributing to our mission of College for All.

Compensation & Benefits:

Salaries for people entering this role typically fall between $66,600 and $80,600, commensurate with relevant experience and qualifications and in alignment with internal equity. This role is also eligible for a performance bonus based on individual and organizational performance and goal attainment.

This role is grant-funded through September 2023.

Additionally, we offer medical, dental, vision, and supplemental benefits as well as retirement plans and a generous vacation package. You can find more information about our benefits at https://ideapublicschools.org/careers/benefits/.

Location:

The Manager of New Teacher Success must currently live in or be willing to relocate to Texas, with preference for one of our regions in Austin, El Paso, Houston, Permian Basin, Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio, or Tarrant County.

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.